‘Republicans’ destroy potent national symbol

THE Taoiseach again declares his party to be “the republican party” in the wake of the historic announcement by the IRA. What would his republican ancestors think of the Government’s decision to put a motorway through Tara?

When the British Israelites attempted to dig the hill 100 years ago, Arthur Griffith wrote a series of articles in the United Irishman defending Tara from the attack of the “foreigners” and reminded his readers that Tara was “a living reminder of the former glory of an enslaved and half-debased nation”.

Today, it is our own half-debased nation cannibalising its former glory.